<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for M. Aur. Cl. Ktesias

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble base capital with heavy moulding above (top 0.68 × 0.70; shaft 0.42 × 0.37; height 0.32), broken away to right.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the upper moulding (l.1) on lower fascia (l.2) and on the shaft (l.3 ff). The text very probably continued on a base below.

Description of Letters

Letters: 0.0175; ligatures, ΗΜ l.1, ΜΗ l.2; superscript bars for abbreviation, l.4

Date

Probably third century (lettering, nomenclature).

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία ἐτείμησαν ταῖς καλλίσταις καὶ πρεπούσαις τειμαῖςΜᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον Κλαύδιον Κτησίαν Διογᾶ τοῦ Ἡλιοδώρου
Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications.

Translation

The Council and the People [ and ? the Gerousia] honoured with the finest [and] fitting honours Mar(cus) Aur(elius) Cl(audius) Ktesias, [son of Di]ogas the son of Heliodoros [ . . .

Commentary

It is probable that the honorand became Marcus Aurelius following the Edict of Caracalla on citizenship in A.D. 212, since he refers to his father and grandfather in the Greek manner, not that of a Roman citizen; but it is also probable that his family already had Roman citizenship as Claudii, being in that case one of the really early Aphrodisian families to receive it (from the emperor Claudius). Their continued use of the Greek manner of reference to ancestors is of particular interest in this connection.

Locations

Walls, South-east: lying loose on the inner side of the wall, near 8.113 (MAMA 435). Unknown Findspot (1989)

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin; by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 132, no. 61, whence (on line 4) Robert, RPh 3, 1929, 126, no. 5, SEG 4, 399; by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 503, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 258.

Photographs

Face (1989)
Face (1989)